Ok but I don't see any reason for you to consider it "easier" to play on a console when you already have a perfectly functional PC next to you, able to handle the game: there is no extra step or steps that require more time or energy once the PC is set up, compare to the console.
So I really don't know what you're talking about when you mention the "ease of use" of console over an already set up and ready-to-go PC.
Maybe the settings have to be configured but you already have the default settings and either way, the PC simply gives you more options, so you just interpret the choice given to you as something time consuming, which it's not, if you don't want to bother choosing.
The number of weird issues I've seen over the years gaming on PC is what I'm talking about. And it takes time to deal with. When things work right, sure, it's just as easy.
I'm sure everyone has different experiences and maybe it's better now, but if I never have to fight with a driver issue again I'm happy.
Sure, you're obviously more likely to have problems like driver issue on a PC than on a console, but in my experience, those kind of issues (or any kind of issue for that matter) are so extremely rare, it's totally negligible in front of what bring a PC to you and it certainly won't make me want to switch to consoles for a waste of 20 minutes of my time over a year because of some program or piece of code that didn't run as expected.
I guess we have different acceptable levels of wasted time.
It's funny actually. Not directly gaming related, but I just yesterday updated my graphics drivers and my video editing software had a blue tint to everything in the preview window. Had to keep rolling back to find the version that broke it. That stuff drives me insane.
Do you use Windows by any chance? And cherry on top, an AMD GPU? That wouldn't surprise me because that's the worst combo possible. Unfortunately, I can do nothing more than empathize with your issue, it's indeed a pretty big deal considering it shouldn't be an issue in the first place, whether you game on your PC or not.
I use personally Linux and I've never had any problem for drivers, whether it's Nvidia or AMD, since I use it, which could explain our difference of experience.
Ok but I don't see any reason for you to consider it "easier" to play on a console when you already have a perfectly functional PC next to you, able to handle the game: there is no extra step or steps that require more time or energy once the PC is set up, compare to the console. So I really don't know what you're talking about when you mention the "ease of use" of console over an already set up and ready-to-go PC. Maybe the settings have to be configured but you already have the default settings and either way, the PC simply gives you more options, so you just interpret the choice given to you as something time consuming, which it's not, if you don't want to bother choosing.
The number of weird issues I've seen over the years gaming on PC is what I'm talking about. And it takes time to deal with. When things work right, sure, it's just as easy.
I'm sure everyone has different experiences and maybe it's better now, but if I never have to fight with a driver issue again I'm happy.
Sure, you're obviously more likely to have problems like driver issue on a PC than on a console, but in my experience, those kind of issues (or any kind of issue for that matter) are so extremely rare, it's totally negligible in front of what bring a PC to you and it certainly won't make me want to switch to consoles for a waste of 20 minutes of my time over a year because of some program or piece of code that didn't run as expected.
I guess we have different acceptable levels of wasted time.
It's funny actually. Not directly gaming related, but I just yesterday updated my graphics drivers and my video editing software had a blue tint to everything in the preview window. Had to keep rolling back to find the version that broke it. That stuff drives me insane.
Do you use Windows by any chance? And cherry on top, an AMD GPU? That wouldn't surprise me because that's the worst combo possible. Unfortunately, I can do nothing more than empathize with your issue, it's indeed a pretty big deal considering it shouldn't be an issue in the first place, whether you game on your PC or not. I use personally Linux and I've never had any problem for drivers, whether it's Nvidia or AMD, since I use it, which could explain our difference of experience.
Bingo :-/